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CVE-2006-4343 Detail

Description

The get_server_hello function in the SSLv2 client code in OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l, 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d, and earlier versions allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a null pointer dereference.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Evaluator Solution

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product releases: OpenSSL Project, OpenSSL, 0.9.7l (or later) OpenSSL Project, OpenSSL, 0.9.8d (or later)

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-007.txt.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01118771 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-613 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00805100 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00849540 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-11.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-September/049715.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497311408250&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://openbsd.org/errata.html#openssl2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://openvpn.net/changelog.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22094 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22116 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22130 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22165 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22166 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22172 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22186 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22193 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22207 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22212 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22216 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22220 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22240 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22259 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22260 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22284 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22298 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22330 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22385 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22460 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22487 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22500 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22544 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22626 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22758 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22772 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22791 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22799 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23038 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23280 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23309 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23340 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23680 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23794 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23915 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24950 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25420 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25889 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26329 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30124 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/31492 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-11.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016943 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017522 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.676946 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461863&group_id=69227 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102668-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102711-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201531-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-220.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-260.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/ps4162/tsd_products_security_response09186a008077af1b.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20061108-openssl.shtml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1185 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1195 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200612-11.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ingate.com/relnote-452.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/386964 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:172 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:177 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:178 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_24_sr.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_58_openssl.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.021-openssl.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20060928.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2007-101493.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.osvdb.org/29263 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0695.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0629.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447318/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447393/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456546/100/200/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20246 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22083 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.serv-u.com/releasenotes/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0054 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-353-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/esx-202-200612-patch.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx-213-200612-patch.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-253-200612-patch.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200612-patch.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3820 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3860 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3869 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3902 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3936 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4036 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4264 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4401 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4417 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4443 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0343 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1401 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1973 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2783 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/c/cert_ESSNetwork_XRX07001_v1.pdf CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29240 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10207 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4356 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4773 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00967144 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-4343
NVD Published Date:
09/28/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.